What an incredibly long winter we seem to have had! Many people have come to The Milk Shed over this period talking about the fact that we haven’t had three dry days together since August and blimey don’t we know it. Dairy cows in the UK need to be housed over winter. As the days shorten grass growth declines and then halts and ground conditions get worse due to increasingly wet weather meaning that the pastures can no longer carry the cows and they begin to poach (farmer spe